Coloniality – a power structure that is linked to the exploitation and unequal distribution of wealth – has a pivotal role in the racial, political and social hierarchical orders imposed on the racialised, non-European bodies. Whenever the concept is deployed, it is often reduced to the Imperial British exploration and colonisation of territories in Africa, Caribbean Islands, and Asia; the French settlements in parts of the Caribbean Islands and Africa; the German experimentation in South-West Africa, and the Dutch seaborne competing with the Spanish and Portuguese's expansionism. Within this territorial expansion of Europe, study related to Poland's attempted acquisition of colonial territories outside Europe is rarely explored and never adequately theorised as part of the global European coloniality. Drawing on the activities of the Polish Colonial Society, this presentation demonstrates that the building blocks of coloniality were not confined solely to European Imperial powers. As colonisation forged ahead in the twentieth century, Poland seemed to be the country where legacies of coloniality played a significant role in the state formation. This indicates that the conditions created by the European Imperial powers gave rise to the manoeuvring of the less powerful European states, and account for contemporary European racialisation of non-European bodies.
